Category Archives: Politics

DONALD TRUMP: “I’M BETTER LOOKING THAN CARLY FIORINA!”

September 10, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Capture NEW YORK, New York (The Adobo Chronicles® ) – Donald Trump is done trashing Mexicans and the Chinese. He’s turning now to his opponents for the Republican presidential nomination.

First, Trump criticized former Florida Governor Jeb Bush for speaking Spanish during one of the latter’s campaign appearances. He has also questioned Ben Carson’s Christian faith.

Now, the real estate mogul is turning up the heat on the lone woman Republican candidate Carly Fiorina.

It wasn’t about Fiorina’s record as CEO, or her failed 2010 senatorial candidacy in California. It was about her looks.

In an interview with Rolling Stone magazine, Trump offered a free-wheeling critique of the former Hewlett-Packard CEO.

“Look at that face!” he said at a conference table with his staff as Ms. Fiorina took a question about him on television. “Would anyone vote for that? Can you imagine that, the face of our next president?!”

In a follow up off-the-record comment, Trump told Rolling Stone : “I am far better looking than that woman, my hair notwithstanding.”

Speaking of hair, many will recall that in 2010, while waiting for her interview with CNN affiliate KXTV (and unaware that the camera was rolling), Fiorina delivered the following iconic sentence while typing away on her Blackberry mobile device: “‘God what is that hair?’ So yesterday!” She was, of course, talking about Barbara Boxer.

So, could it be that Trump’s comment about Fiorina is simply karma?

Music, Politics

STEPHEN SONDHEIM ALLOWS REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES TO USE HIS MOST FAMOUS SONG COMPOSITION

September 10, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

First, it was Mike Huckabee who used a rock band’s hit song “Eye of the Tiger” during a press conference following the release of the Rowan County clerk Kim Davis who was jailed for defying a Supreme Court decision for her to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples. The band, Survivor, is suing Huckabee and Davis for unauthorized public performance of a copyrighted material.

Then, the rock band R.E.M. lashed out at Donald Trump and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Wednesday after Trump took the stage at a rally in Washington D.C. to the tune of one of their best-known songs.

“Go f*ck yourselves, the lot of you — you sad, attention-grabbing, power-hungry little men,” lead singer Michael Stipe said in a statement to The Daily Beast. “Do not use our music or my voice for your moronic charade of a campaign.”

Trump and Cruz both spoke at an event protesting the White House’s proposed nuclear arms agreement with Iran. Trump appeared with the band’s hit, “It’s The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)” playing in the background.

But in contrast, famous composer Stephen Sondheim surprised both the political and music circles by offering all Republican presidential candidates free and unconditional use of one of his most famous compositions, a song written for the 1973 musical, “A Little Night Music.”

The song is “Send in the Clowns.” It won the Grammy’s Song of the Year in 1975.

Law Enforcement, Music, Politics

KIM DAVIS, MIKE HUCKABEE TURN TO KICKSTARTER TO RAISE $1.2 MILLION

September 9, 2015 Pol Pinoy Leave a comment

Capture SALISBURY, North Carolina (The Adobo Chronicles®) — The band Survivor has filed a $1.2 million lawsuit against Kim Davis and Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee over the unauthorized use of its hit song “Eye of the Tiger.”

Davis, the Rowan County clerk who was jailed after refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, was released Tuesday morning, after serving six days in prison, to the sound of Survivor’s classic song “Eye of the Tiger.” The theme song from the movie “Rocky III” played in the background as she, her husband, and Mike Huckabee celebrated her freedom in front of cheering supporters.

The lawsuit is just one more problem for Davis, but a much bigger one for the former Arkansas governor in as far as his presidential campaign is concerneed. Huckabee is not only doing poorly in the polls but in campaign fundraising as well. This past quarter, he reported raising only $2 million, which could be instantly wiped out if the lawsuit against him and Davis succeeds.

So today, Huckabee and Davis turned to the Internet crowdfunding platform Kickstarter to help them raise the $1.2 million they would need if the judgment goes against them in the Survivor lawsuit.

On Tuesday, Huckabee said he was willing to go to jail in Davis’ place.

Maybe, he will. And for sure, Davis will gladly join him.